Lanka Liar:
Thanks for speaking from your heart and from your head as well. Your comments had the unmistakeable ring of truth and we all owe you for that.

Dear GV & Readers,
I regret and am feeling so sorry for having wrongly taken-up and misspelled Dr. D. Thiranagama’s wife‘s name as ‘Rajani’ instead of ‘Rajini’. Regretfully, Nithy!

Read and learned a lot of Dr. D. Thiranagama’s, from his intermittent mementos – but at regular intervals, sharing his grief and cherished memories over the loss of his adored wife Dr. Rajani T. Having realized, learning from many other sources, Rajani’s personality and the values that she stood for in her public activities, this writer became remorseful and self-reproaching and recognized that she didn’t deserve such untimely violent … the plotters will never be known – not Rajani’s only but many other tens of brutal deaths. Deeply feeling sorry for you Dr. D Thiranagama and join the many in sharing your grief. May God bless the Children and you!

Having said so, this writer was also provoked to denounce and rebuke truth’s above assertion – at last could not proceed – but failed. ‘Truth’ didn’t allow my conscience – consciousness chased me away. Thanks, Nithy!

This is a beautiful read. However I felt that this particular para, starting with “kind of tight grip on the city appears to serve twin military and political objectives: ” was a little bit simplistic in its analysis. The situation in Sri Lanka is far more complex.

But loved this piece nevertheless

These victims fortunately have a few reporters:

Commonwealth parliamentarians garlanded by Occupation army commander in North Sri Lanka …..

http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=79&artid=35567

…… while IDPs struggle against landgrab by Army and Navy:

http://groundviews.org/2012/09/16/the-struggle-to-go-home-in-post-war-sri-lanka-manthuvil-in-the-mullativu-district/
http://groundviews.org/2012/09/15/who-burnt-houses-of-returning-muslim-idps-in-mannar/

”TNA: Shall be banned as a political party who promote same racial agenda on the tune of the overseas LTTE lobby” ??

CEYLON : A DIVIDED NATION, B H Farmer(1963):
Since those saddening days of 1958 Ceylon has had its share of trouble. The truth, though unpalatable may be to some, is simply that nobody unacceptable to the present Sinhalese Buddhist nationalism has any chance of constitutional power in contemporary Ceylon.
(referring to the 1957/8/9 Buddhist monks opposing the concessions to Tamils after introducing ”Sinhala Only”)

”But that truth cannot excuse human rights violations that currently afflict the nation as a whole; or for that matter obscure the looming threat of the cultural and political colonisation of the north by the Sinhala Buddhist majority” – Biased and Prejudiced Collection on Sri Lanka, *Gananath Obeyesekere, Economic & Political Weekly, VOL 47 No. 04, 28 January-03 February 2012 (*a Sinhalese Buddhist and Emeritus Professor of Anthropology, Princeton University), http://www.scribd.com/doc/82525102/Biased-and-Prejudiced-Collection-on-Sri-Lanka

2-Silenced Voices- Another film about Sri Lankan human rights activists Bashana Abeywardane and his Tamil wife standing for human rights in Sri lanka.This film is currently doing the circuits

1- located in the terrain of human rights but slanted towards the state
2-located in the terrain of human rights but higly critical of the state

Both directed by two diffrent Western females – hey…. they are not Sri lankan..so the impartiality…
Both cappitalising on the Tamil Sinhala relationship as a point socrer for their impartiaility

WHAT A FARCE..WHAT HUMAN RIGHTS

It is totally agreed, that, all of us, must abandon Communal Politics.
Most of us would agree to live side by side as Sri Lankan’s if possible

But when you say that the T N A must be banned because it is racial, it appears that you have not evaluated the Political scenario after 1948.

Around 1948 and a little after, I believe we had less than ten Political parties. We had several left parties, Communist, N S S P, L S S P, the U N P and the Federal Party, Tamil Congress, subsequently the M E P.
Please note that even before Independence the Northern and Eastern Provinces were demanding for fifty / fifty, as they were unsure of the majority’s stand, to accept the minorities as equals.
They were the distinct majority at that time, in these two Provinces.
Subsequently due to Colonization their majority gradually reduced and now with Government’s manipulation, solely with the idea of making the Tamils a minority in these Provinces, the Tamils who were a majority have now been reduced, virtually to a minority.
The Racial and Religious Politics was vibrantly started in 1956 and the Constitution was amended by S.W.R.D. for his Sinhala only policy.
Subsequently Buddhism was added to the Constitution as a priority.

This has alienated the minorities, and therefore expecting the minorities to swallow the Sinhala Buddhist ‘Gundu’ that the North and East are being developed, by building bridges and roads will never stand the test.
They are demanding the restoration of dignity and equality.
The Sinhala Buddhist’s are over 70%, and therefore it is incumbent on them, to remove the fears and obstacles, placed by their representatives, the Sinhala Buddhist Politicians.

No amount of rhetoric about development, and bribing with Portfolios can produce a solution, against the doubts and mistrust that has grown over the years.

DOES ANYONE BELIEVE,THAT THIS GOVERNMENT IS SEARCHING FOR TRUE RECONCILIATION? NO, with the exception of people, in the Government.